It could have a summary about the microfilm
When you are looking up some register on a microfilm it's harder look image for image without a north about what trully there is on the microfilm. Some microfilms have more than 3000 images (pages) and many of them contain register of different cities.
It there could be other index file near the microfilm (with a list of contents / registers).
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Leiliane
Welcome to the "Community.FamilySearch" Forum.
I am just another 'lowly' User/Patron ...
Just in passing ...
Question: Have you check the FHL Film number, in the 'FamilySearch' "Catalogue"?
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog
ie. Under the "Film/Fiche/Image Group Number (DGS)" search
I hope, that this may help/assist, somewhat.
Brett
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When you're viewing a digitized image, there are two tabs at the bottom: "Image Index" and "Information". Open the "Information" tab to see the catalog Note lines corresponding to the film. These generally give a rough guide to the contents and arrangement of the film.
You can also click on the lines on the Information tab to be taken to the corresponding catalog entry, where you can look up what else is available for that place/church/dataset. Pay particular attention to item numbers: most multi-part films have bookmark images marking the items (sections) on them in a form that's readable even in thumbnail view, so you can use them to quickly navigate to roughly the right section of film.
On more "homogenous" films -- such as https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DT37-ZQB?mode=g&cat=292437, containing births between 1886 and 1888 in the Jewish congregation of Pest, Hungary -- you can use the dates or other catalog information (on the Information tab) to make a stab at the right image number, and type that straight into the box at the top left. For example, if I was looking for a Jewish man born in April of 1887 in Pest, I would make a guess that that's somewhere right in the middle of the date range of 1886 to 1888, so I'd go take a look at image 300, which turns out to be August 1887, so I'd go back, first in increments of 25, then singly, to find the desired entry at the bottom of image 236.
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